Grenade Discovered In Miami Gardens Yard After Apparent Attempted Break-In

A Miami Gardens family found a live grenade in their backyard Saturday just hours after an attempted break-in, prompting the Miami-Dade Police Bomb Squad to evacuate the neighborhood and detonate the grenade on the scene.

"Imagine! My daughter is always playing out there," said Natalie Rivera, who lives at the home near NW 48th Place and NW 178th Terrace. "If she would have grabbed it...it would have exploded. The house would have exploded! It would have ended up horrible, terrible."

Rivera told news outlets it all began when her burglar alarm went off early Saturday morning as someone attempted to enter the house through a bedroom window. Two men sped away in a white car, she said, but she thought the incident was over until her mother found the grenade.

The strange episode ended after Bomb Squad members buried the hand-made grenade in the backyard, according to NBCMiami, then detonated it from a safe distance.

"To do something like this, it's not something to rob, it's something [intended] to hurt," she said. Rivera said she couldn't think of anyone who would want to harm her or her family.

The incident is the second time in a month a Miami-area resident has found a grenade in her yard. On December 38, a woman raking leaves in Kendall discovered what she thought was a bullet, but turned out to be a live 40 mm grenade.

Comments

[ozamiz85]

09:50 AM on 01/30/2012

Ahhh, Welcome to Miami. CessPool of the south !

[kmcc895370]

06:06 AM on 01/30/2012

Ok everybody , where were YOU on December 38th????

[kmcc895370]

06:05 AM on 01/30/2012

That bomb squad guy that disposed of the grenade the way he did is a real hot dog. I usually have great respect for these people because you only get one chance to do the job right but to blow up this woman's yard instead of taking the grenade somewhere else that is safer is rediculous. Grenades are about the safest explosive ordnance you can handle. They are easily disarmed and designed to be handled. This guy was just showing off and what he did was totally unnecessary not to mention that any fingerprints on it were lost.

[kareemachan]

01:44 PM on 01/31/2012

I'm so glad you have so much inside information and can state this as fact. Does the fact that the grenade was HOMEMADE mean it was as safe as a real one?

[eyeroll]

[mugwhump]

08:29 PM on 01/29/2012

It wasn't me. I was at home all day on December the 38th.

[cibersatan]

03:04 PM on 01/29/2012

"The incident is the second time in a month a Miami-area resident has found a grenade in her yard. On December 38, a woman raking leaves in Kendall discovered what she thought was a bullet, but turned out to be a live 40 mm grenade."

.......I thought December ended on the 31st......we had a whole extra week last year and I missed it

[Rooftop Voter]

06:46 PM on 01/30/2012

I have visited all 57 states.............

[cibersatan]

11:21 PM on 01/30/2012

lol